Stocking and method of knitting same



Jan. 22, 1935. w, HElNlTz 1,988,899

STOCKING AND METHOD OF KNITTING SAME Filed Dec. 6, 1932 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 w. HElNlTz 1,988,899

Jan. 22, 1935.

Filed Dec. 6, 1932 jan. 22, 1935. W, HElNn-z 3,988,899

STOCKING ND METHOD OF KNITTING SAME Filed Dec. e, 1932 s sheets-sheet 5 lPatented jan. 22, i935 v l srnras garant @Price STCFSNG iND METHOD 0F KNIT'IING- SAME Woldeniar llenitz, (Chemnitz, Germany, assigner to Schubert da Snizer Maschinenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft, Chemnitz, Germany applicano@ necesites e, i932, serial no. 646,002 lin Germany -imecember lo, i931 The present invention relates to a method of larged part .r-y obtains the desired width to Ithe making stockings in a single operation on iiat Wale a' which is necessary for the heel rounding. knitting machines according to which methodv In the rows of loops from line c-c to line after finishing the leg part the heel parts are d-d the loops, except the selvage loops, may

made simultaneously with the foot part conbe transferred without narrowing the fabric, or 5 necting them by narrowing enlarged beginning plain rows of loops are formed from line c-c starting courses. to line d-d.

The main object of the invention is to provide From line d-d to line e-e the rows of loops a method for obtaining a stocking of such kind including the selvage loops are narrowed inthe having a particularly well fitting heel rounding. usual manner by returning the narrowing nl0 The heel rounding according to the invention ger for a lesser number of needles than has been is thereby obtained that after finishing the leg narrowed. In this manner, the known narrowpart the first row of loops of the heel parts is ing line extending'at an angle to the rows of enlarged, and prior to the narrowing of these loops as illustrated in Fig. 2 is obtained. The

rows, selvage loops adapted to be sewed in are portion C-D 4of the narrowing line between the l5 formed by widening in some further courses. courses c-c and M in which the loops were In a well known manner, for instance, as detransferred without narrowing, as described, exscribed in my United States application Se- 'tends on a single wale, while the portion D-E rial Number 488,165, the loops, except the selvage of the narrowing line between the courses d-d 2o loops, of some rows of loops are transferred in and e-e which were narrowedin the usual man- 2() connection with the particularly enlarged rows ner, extends at an angle to the courses. of loops without narrowing the fabric. llnstead Plain courses may be knitted between the of transferring loops in some rows plain rows courses c-c and d-d instead of transferring as of loops may, of course, also be formed. In both described, and in this case a narrowing line is cases the known narrowing .follows which innot formed between the courses c-c and df-d 25 cludes narrowing of the selvage loops. In this as shown inFig. 3, while the narrowing line D-E operation, the narrowing finger is returned for from course d-d to course e-e extend at an a number of needles less than has been narrowed angle to the wales. so that the known narrowing line running at Various changes may be made in the details an angle to the Wale is obtained. v disclosed in the foregoing specification without 30` In the drawings affixed to the specification departing from the invention or sacrificing the and forming part thereof, a portion of a fabric advantages thereof. knitted according to my method, and the heel In the claims ailixed to this specication no portion of two stockings obtained by such knitselection of any particular modification` of the 3.5 ting, are illustrated diagrammatically by way invention is intended to the exclusion of other of example. modifications thereof and the right to subsequent- In the drawings ly make claim to any modification not covered by Fig. l shows, on a magnified scale, the loops these claims is expressly reserved. at the right of a heel portion, it being underl claim: lo stood that the heel portion is exactly similar 1. A method of making a stocking in a single 40 at the left, operation on a fiat knitting machine, comprising Fig. 2 shows the heel portion of a stocking in combination the steps of forming, after finwhose narrowing lines are partly on a Wale, and ishirg the leg portion, enlarged starting courses partly at an angle tothe wales, and to obtain part of the heel width, widening of 15 Fig. 3 shows the heel portion of a. stocking some following courses to obtain the heel round- 45 whose narrowing lines are exclusively at an angle ing by forming selvage loops adapted to be sewed to the wales. in, knitting several plain courses and subsequent- After finishing the leg part to the row of loops ly narrowing the fabric. a-a at uniform width to the Wale :n further 2. A method of making a stocking in a single 5o knitting is effected to line b-b in rows enlarged operation on a flat knitting machine, comprising 50 to the wale y. The enlarged parts may be formed in combination the steps of forming, after fin-l separately from the middle part of the foot, or ishing.the leg portion, enlarged starting. courses the first course, or all courses of these parts may to obtain part of the heel width, widening of some be connected to the foot part. They are required following courses to obtain the heel roundingfby only for the subsequent loopi..g and are' looped forming selvage loops adapted to be sewed in, 5.5 before the stocking is finished. In the row of knitting several courses in which narrowing is loops behind the line b-b the heel rounding effected without transferring the selvage loops according to `the invention begins by adding as and subsequently narrowing the fabric withtransfar as the line c-c a number of widened selvage fer of the selvage loops. 6o vloops adapted to be sewed in, whereby the en- WOEDEMAR MINITZ. 60 

